Initially a self-taught artist in his native Ecuador, Oscar Santillán went on to earning an MFA from the prestigious VCU Sculpture Department (US). He has been an artist-in-residence at Delfina Foundation (UK), Van Eyck (NL), Skowhegan (US), Fondazione Ratti (IT), Davidoff Art Initiative (DO), and Seven Below (US).

The work of Santillán quietly murmurs of a world which behaves differently than the one known to us. His practice is an investigation of the margins of reality itself; it reminds us of the limits of our senses.

Santillán seeks to transgrede the very construction of Western reality, which is based on binary contraries—good/bad, black/white, man/woman, truth/lies. These categories dissolve in his work, opening up a larger sense of what is possible. He offers us physical evidence of a territory beyond reality, where a phantom limb is captured, the weight of light over planet Earth is measured, and the dance of a dead philosopher is brought back to life. There is no distinction between what is possible and impossible.